2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 August.

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	29 August
Competitors	53 from 29 nations
Winning time	3:40:32
Medalists
Matej Tóth   Slovakia   Jared Tallent   Australia   Takayuki Tanii   Japan

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record	Yohann Diniz (FRA)	3:32:33	Zürich, Switzerland	15 August 2014
Championship record	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:36:03	Saint-Denis, France	23 August 2003
World Leading	Matej Tóth (SVK)	3:34:38	Dudince, Slovakia	21 March 2015
African Record	Marc Mundell (RSA)	3:55:32	London, Great Britain	11 August 2012
Asian Record	Yu Chaohong (CHN)	3:36:06	Nanjing, China	22 October 2005
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Erick Barrondo (GUA)	3:41:09	Dudince, Slovakia	23 March 2013
South American Record	James Rendón (COL)	3:47:41	Valley Cottage, United States	14 September 2014
European Record	Yohann Diniz (FRA)	3:32:33	Zürich, Switzerland	15 August 2014
Oceanian record	Nathan Deakes (AUS)	3:35:47	Geelong, Australia	2 December 2006
The following records were established during the competition:
South American Record	Andrés Chocho (ECU)	3:46:00	Beijing, China	29 August 2015

Qualification standards

Time
4:06:00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
29 August 2015	07:30	Final

All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results

The race was started at 07:30.

KEY:

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Matej Tóth	Slovakia (SVK)	3:40:32
	Jared Tallent	Australia (AUS)	3:42:17	SB
	Takayuki Tanii	Japan (JPN)	3:42:55
4	Hirooki Arai	Japan (JPN)	3:43:44
5	Robert Heffernan	Ireland (IRL)	3:44:17	SB
6	Zhang Lin	China (CHN)	3:44:39	PB
7	Yu Wei	China (CHN)	3:45:21	PB
8	Andrés Chocho	Ecuador (ECU)	3:46:00	AR
9	Jesús Ángel García	Spain (ESP)	3:46:43	SB
10	Quentin Rew	New Zealand (NZL)	3:48:48	PB
11	Adrian Błocki	Poland (POL)	3:49:11	PB
12	Evan Dunfee	Canada (CAN)	3:49:56	PB
13	Chris Erickson	Australia (AUS)	3:51:26	SB
14	Wu Qianlong	China (CHN)	3:51:35
15	Ivan Banzeruk	Ukraine (UKR)	3:52:15
16	Marco De Luca	Italy (ITA)	3:53:02
17	Matteo Giupponi	Italy (ITA)	3:53:23
18	Aku Partanen	Finland (FIN)	3:54:28
19	Serhiy Budza	Ukraine (UKR)	3:55:10
20	Luis Fernando López	Colombia (COL)	3:55:43	PB
21	Pedro Isidro	Portugal (POR)	3:55:44	PB
22	Tadas Šuškevičius	Lithuania (LTU)	3:56:27	SB
23	Park Chil-sung	South Korea (KOR)	3:56:42	SB
24	Håvard Haukenes	Norway (NOR)	3:56:50	SB
25	Teodorico Caporaso	Italy (ITA)	3:56:58
26	Sandeep Kumar	India (IND)	3:57:03	SB
27	Manish Singh	India (IND)	3:57:11	PB
28	Rafał Augustyn	Poland (POL)	3:57:30
29	Jaime Quiyuch	Guatemala (GUA)	3:57:41	SB
30	Dušan Majdán	Slovakia (SVK)	3:58:57	SB
31	Mathieu Bilodeau	Canada (CAN)	4:01:35	SB
32	Jarkko Kinnunen	Finland (FIN)	4:02:07	SB
33	Marc Mundell	South Africa (RSA)	4:02:41
34	Yuki Yamazaki	Japan (JPN)	4:03:54
35	Francisco Arcilla	Spain (ESP)	4:07:23	SB
36	Luis Ángel Sánchez	Guatemala (GUA)	4:09:26
37	John Nunn	United States (USA)	4:09:44	SB
38	Arnis Rumbenieks	Latvia (LAT)	4:28:55
	Marius Cocioran	Romania (ROM)	DNF
	Carl Dohmann	Germany (GER)	DNF
	Mário dos Santos	Brazil (BRA)	DNF
	Anders Hansson	Sweden (SWE)	DNF
	Anatole Ibáñez	Sweden (SWE)	DNF
	Aleksi Ojala	Finland (FIN)	DNF
	Alexandros Papamichail	Greece (GRE)	DNF
	Benjamin Sánchez	Spain (ESP)	DNF
	Alex Wright	Ireland (IRL)	DNF
	Erick Barrondo	Guatemala (GUA)	DQ
	Brendan Boyce	Ireland (IRL)	DQ
	Lukáš Gdula	Czech Republic (CZE)	DQ
	Ihor Hlavan	Ukraine (UKR)	DQ
	Łukasz Nowak	Poland (POL)	DQ
	Martin Tišťan	Slovakia (SVK)	DQ
	Aleksandr Yargunkin	Russia (RUS)	DNS